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Resilience Intel

The COP22 Presidency joined Citizens’ Climate Education and the Geoversiv Foundation to introduce Resilience Intel: a first-of-its-kind Climate-Smart Finance Aggregator, on the Finance Day at COP23.

From left to right: Renat Heuberger, CEO of the South Pole Group, Joseph Robertson, CCE Global Strategy Director, and Siham Ayad, lead climate finance advisor to the COP22 Presidency, present Resilience Intel at a press event during the COP23 in Bonn.Click here to learn how the Resilience Intel logo tells the story of our mission.

The Climate-Smart Finance Aggregator brings together a coalition of technical, political and financial practitioner partners to establish a common standard for basic assessment of the climate-positive, neutral or negative value of any given dollar of investment, in any sector.

It is a major technical outcome of the Acceleration Dialogues, which began in October 2015, in the run-up to the COP21 climate negotiations, where the Paris Agreement was adopted.

One of the core elements of the COP22 climate finance work relates to Adaptation Metrics, or measuring the “invisible value” of spending that produces as its major benefit a reduction in future risk, vulnerability or damage.

The Aggregator will use a light-touch analysis to parse any kind of spending into good / bad / neutral and then add up all of the good, to identify hidden climate-action money across the whole economy.

Any given dollar, euro, yuan, or sol can be graded as one of the following:

Resilience Value Positive: RV+

Resilience Value Stable: RV=

Resilience Value Negative: RV-

A rough-sketch outline for the ongoing development of Resilience Intel as a coalition of technical support, a data-mapping network of networks, and a decision-support tool:

From the start — work with technical partners, and add to the aggregate value flowing to climate-related priorities;

Next stage — climate intelligence grading applicable to any kind of finance or expenditure, intended to integrate many different climate value and resilience ratings methodologies;

Building on experience — roadmaps for upgrading the climate intelligence of investments, budgets, institutions of many kinds.

Ultimately — empower innovators in finance to leverage new kinds of data to show the competitive resilience value of specific investment choices.

Investors, entrepreneurs and decision-makers, at all levels, everywhere, need actionable insights to compete in a new economy that values climate solvency as a basic right and a structural principle for the effective operation of legal and economic systems.

A resilience deficit is an erosion of sovereignty — for individuals, for enterprise, and for the state in its obligation to define and uphold the rule of law.

Investments that carry a resilience deficit will be disfavored by the wider day-to-day market for finance, globally.

The ability to perform while generating zero external harm, and to cooperate sustainably with partners at all levels, will be a higher priority than the state-funded market distortion that dominated the old industrial economy.

As the transition to a climate-resilient world economy speeds ahead, every actor, at every level, can look to a future in which one’s own transition trajectory is either optimal or suboptimal.

The optimal transition trajectory for most actors remains fairly opaque or elusive, due to the lack of visibility of the climate-smart qualification of any given dollar of planned investment.

The CSFA will help to resolve this problem by bringing the climate-smart qualification of any given dollar of planned investment into view–drawing connections to the climate intelligence of related investments, goods, services, and infrastructure. During the development phase, we invite input and inquiry from experts, potential practitioner partners, and from financial institutions in and private sectors.

Founding Partners

The Kingdom of Morocco, acting as a party to the UNFCCC, co-convened the Paris Working Dialogue on Resilience Intel, and is an ongoing partner in connecting this effort to the implementation of the COP22 Climate Finance Pathway and the Marrakech Pledge for Fostering Green Capital Markets in Africa.